History

v0.9.9

Groundwork for the release.

• Apple Vision Pro: Pitch Quantize holds a note the same way everywhere in the scale, so a slow glide or a small push away from a settled note feels the same across a wide gap between notes as across a narrow one.
• The code behind the instrument was reorganized and checked more thoroughly, on iPhone, iPad and Apple Vision Pro.

v0.9.8

A steadier grid.

• The grid still follows your hand as you play, and between notes it slowly eases back toward the hand you fit, so aiming at the marks on screen can't lead it away to one side.
• The notes stay in place on screen as a finger lands, where on iPad they could jump for a single frame.
• The guide's step for the other hand says to touch the arrow with another finger, keeping the first one down.

v0.9.7

Rows that follow your hand, and more scales.

• The rows follow the arch of your hand: fitting measures how high each finger rests, and every row curves the same way, so the little finger and the middle finger each land on their own note. Fit your hands again to have it measured.
• Ten more scales: Phrygian, Lydian, Locrian, Melodic minor, Phrygian dominant, Hungarian minor, Double harmonic, Major blues, Minor blues and Whole tone.
• The Bluetooth device list and Bluetooth advertise each open on a page of their own, so the whole list is in view.
• Apple Vision Pro: the ruler shows the saved scale from the moment the space opens, and changing the scale leaves nothing of the old one behind.
• Apple Vision Pro: when only the settings window comes back after a restart, the welcome window returns with it, so there is always a way into the space.

v0.9.6

Refinements to the first beta.

• The hands let go when the screen changes shape: turning the iPad, resizing its window, unfolding a phone or a host closing the plugin window stops every note cleanly, and the next touch plants a fresh hand on the new layout.
• Before your hands are fitted, the grid takes its size from the room on the screen, so a narrowed iPad window or an unfolded phone starts with a better proportioned grid.
• In a narrow window the buttons along the top show icons for Record, Play and Share, then move onto a second line, instead of crowding each other.
• VoiceOver reads the buttons along the top by name, the icons included.
• In MPE the thumb's volume is sent on the channel of every sounding note, so synths that read volume per channel follow the hand.
• The iPad keeps Glinster to one window, since the instrument has one sound and one MIDI output to give.

v0.9.5

The first beta.

• Apple Vision Pro: notes on both palm positions, the expression sphere, left-hand levers and the octave register, and the floating ruler.
• iPhone and iPad: notes placed where your hand rests, bending, brightness and volume slides, legato or polyphony, rows growing upward on a tall screen, and the semitone and octave arrows of the other hand, with slides and vibrato.
• A guided first start on both platforms that checks every gesture as you perform it.
• Pitch Quantize with three speeds.
• A constellation of the last notes you played, hung among the stars on Apple Vision Pro and left on the glass where your hand lifted.
• Five sound presets, six scales, twelve roots, and an octave setting that moves the whole instrument two octaves either way.
• MPE with a chosen number of member channels and single-channel MIDI output, a virtual port, direct output to other apps, Bluetooth LE MIDI, Apple network MIDI sessions, and a Send MCM button.
• AUv3 instrument and MIDI generator on iOS, each with its own settings, saved in the host's project.
• Lossless take recording, and playback in the app with the instrument still live so you can play along with a take.